Thy Grace is Sufficient

Alright people. Stop reading blogs, and watch the Olympics....

The imagery and concept of submission has been something that has always resonated in my soul. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is because I fe...

Ok, so the cool thing, according to George Barna might be to forget the building, forget the coffee socials. Forget the nursery for the litt...

Dear Heather: Tonight, our house was full of sound and fury. A gaggle of lovely young ladies came for your 12th birthday party. Screaming, l...

Dear Kelly: Fifteen years ago tonight, your Mom and I were waiting. Waiting for something; a birth. Waiting for someone; and it was you. You...

Surely those of you older than 40 remember Hugo, The Abominable Snowman. Tunneling underground to Palm Springs for vacation, Bugs and Daffy ...

Perhaps I have done something rather irrational. I have recently agreed to serve a three year term as elder at my church. This is the same c...

In 1984, through a rather strange series of events, I had the opportunity to attend the National Prayer Breakfast. It was a remarkable time...

As I move deeper into middle age, I am often struck by the sheer mass of humanity. Today, unusually, I spent about two hours on the LA freew...

The past year has been a most interesting one for myself and our family. We have watched our once-great church home of some 17 years go thr...

In the fall of 1987, a group of my friends from Hollywood Presbyterian Church finally realized a dream that was years in the making. But it ...

Here is a great review of a controversial book, by a church layperson. This is in keeping with my previous thoughts, and those ongoing of ...

Happy 250th, big guy. The world is so much richer because of your music.

Does this picture bother you? My good friend, Mark Roberts and I were walking back from the beach several months ago, our families in tow. ...

I have these friends. Actually, several of them. They love Jesus, and want to serve him. They are serious about their faith, but they are al...

A couple of days each work week, I take off at lunch by myself. Its my time to catch up on reading, usually back issues of the Wall Street J...

First remember that I am not planning on becoming a Catholic, although the mysteries of the Catholic church are sometimes appealing to me. ...

Ok people, there is a controversy a' brewin! It seems that George Barna, the renowned Christian culture research guru, has penned a new ...

To the left is my father, a captain in the Army Air Force, during World War II. Dad was about 23 years old when this photo was taken. Sixty ...

At long last, a rare lost video of Jesus has been recovered .

For my good friend, Rob Asghar : - Cheerleading, tumbling lessons and camps since age 3: $30,000 - Annual cost of attending USC: $ 50,000...

Just heard this on the radio. Dr. Richard Mouw President of Fuller Seminary was recently being interviewed by a newspaper reporter. The rep...

If you look for them, life can be full of little moments of blessing. This fall, our oldest daughter Kelly has started high school - rather ...

....and where we need to go .

I am aware that this blog has resulted in the purchase of at least one book in the past. Stunning results. May I then, with my vast and impr...

Tonight, as I was cleaning the paper-strewn floor of our study (the place where we have the desktop PC and our girls do their homework) I fo...

After all my musing about church, the search is over. I am done, I have found it ! And, I get a pony.

Over the past several weeks, I have posted several pieces here on issues related to the recent troubles at my church. I had a plan to ration...

To begin, a disclaimer. I am not a theologian, but I have been around things Christian long enough to be dangerous. Sort of like having a le...

In prior weeks, I have been processing a bit of the history and struggle of an iconic church in American evangelical history. About 10 ye...

Tonight I witnessed what has to have been one of the greatest college football games of all time. The National Championship on the line. Tex...

After months of my teasing, encouraging, humoring, pleading, and cajoling, my good friend, Dr. Neil McLeod has decided to start his own blog...

It's New Year's. I flipped on CNN last night, and found (as usual) thousands of people already standing in 36 degree drizzling rain,...

As the events of the past year have shown us, the universal church is still one of the most visible forms of the Body of Christ. But often,...

The picture here is from a gathering at our home about a week ago, when friends from five families, all old friends from church from many ye...

This is our house, last night, Christmas Eve. Several years ago my sweet wife, ever the initiator and go-getter, proposed that our entire bl...

Its almost Christmas. While many of us will be enjoying friends, family, and home this weekend, many of our nation's finest will not be ...

Madonna del Magnificat - Sandro Botticelli - Florence, Italy 1480 Over the course of the past year, I have been trying to figure out more ...

The Ghosts in the Attic By way of introduction, my friend Rob Asghar has perhaps the most thoughtful perspective on all of these events I ha...